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APPLIOATION FILED MAY Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

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CALVIN MOORE, 0F ELDORA, AND LEWIS A. HUTCHENS, OF NEW PROVIDENCE, IOWA.

GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 6, 1914.

Application filed May 8, 1913. Serial No. 766,379.

To all whom it. may concern Be it known that we, CALVIN Moons, of Eldora, in the county of Hardin, State of Iowa, and LEWIS A. lil'u'ronnns, of New Providence, county of Hardin, and State of Iowa, citizens of the 'United States, have invented certain new and useful improve-- mcnls in Gates; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to imprd vements in gates and particularly to swinging gates.

One object of the invention s to provide i a gate of this character adapted to be raised at one end and having an improved adj ustable means for holding the gate in its raised position.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, and the combination and arrangement of parts as will be more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of our improved gate show ing the same in a closed or lowered position; Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof: Fig; 3 is a side view showing the gate raised and illustrating the manner in which the same is held in this position: Fig. 4 is a vertical cross sectional view of the gate taken on the. line 4-t of Fig. l Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the gate engaging member of the mechanism which supports the gate in a raised position.

Referring more particularly to the drawings H denotes the hinge post and L denotes the latch post of our improved gate. The gate comprises vertical end bars 1 and 2 to which are pivotally connected the bifurcated ends of upper and lower longitudinal bars 3 and 4. The bars 3 and 4 are connected substantially midway between their ends by a pair of vertical bars 5 which are pivotally secured to the opposite sides of the longitudinal bars shown The space between the end and upper and lower bars of the gate may be provided with any suitable filling of a flexible nature or which will permit the pivotal movement of the bars 3 and 4 on the end bars. In the pres ent instance the space between these bars is provided with a wire netting filling 6 the strands at the outer end of which are preferably coiled around and secured to the tightened up will take up any slack in the filling material 6 and keep the same-in the stretched com'lition. The end bars 1 and 2 are also preferably connected below the lower longitudinal bar 4t by a wire 9 and above the upper longitudinal bar 3 by wires 10. The wires 9 and 10 are preferably barbed wires and the outer ends thereof are secured to the end bar 1 while their inner ends are secured to stretching bolts 11 inserted through the inner end bar 2 and which have on their ends adjusting nuts 12 whereby the wires 9 and 10 may be kept stretched.

The gate hingedly supported on the hinge post H by upper and lower eye bolts 13 with which the end bar 2- is loosely on gagedi The gate is supported in the eye bolts by a transverse supporting pin 14 which is arranged above the eye bolt 13 and is adapted to be engaged with one of a vertical series of apertures 15 formed in the end bar 2 whereby the gate may be adjusted vertically and supported in its adjusted position or at any desired elevation on the hinge post as will be readily understom'l. In order to prevent the gate supporting pin tron: becoming lost or mislaid. the latter is preferably connected to the gate by a short chain or other flexible connection 16 as shown.

By pivotally connecting the ends of the longitudinal bars 3 and -l to the end bars of the gate in the manner described it will be soon that the outer end of the gate may be swung upwardly or raised 'to different heights as clearly shown in ig. 3 ol the drawings to permit. the gate to be swung over snow or other obstructions or to permit mall st ck to pass beneath the same. In order to hold the gate in a raised position, we provide a support 17 which is preferably a [lat metal bar bent intermediate its ends into the form of a yoke or bail engaged with the upper longitudinal bar 3 of the gate. while the lower ends are pivotally connected to the lower bar 4 and to the lower ends of the cross bars 5 as shown at 18.

Pivotally secured between the sides of the OH from the member 19 and support 17 whereupon these parts may. be disengaged support 17 and adapted .to be engaged with the lower side of the upper bar 3 1s a gate supporting member 19 which is preferably in the form of a vV-shaped metal .plate of suitable lengthand haw-Hg on its lower corner midway between its ends a. depending lug which is pivotallyconnected to the sides of the support 17 by a transverse pivot bolt 21 as clearly shown in Figs 4 of the drawings. It willbe seen that when the outer end of the gate is raised to the desired elevation the support 17 may be swung rearwardly at its upper end thereby bringing the y from the upper bar 3 of the gate and swung forwardly and downwardly to the position shown' in Fig. 1 whereupon the gate may be again swung downwardly or lowered or will drop by gravity. It will be noted that by, constructing the supporting mechanism of the gate in the manner described the outer end of the gate may be raised and an ported irrespective of I Q the elevation at whic the gate is hingedly supported in the eye bolts 13 or in other words, the vertical adjustment of the gate onits hinged connections will not-interfere with the raising and lowering of the outer end of the 'gate' in the manner described.

v From the foregoing description taken in =onneetion with, the accompanying draw ings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readily understood without requiring a more extended explanation.

Various changes @n' the form, proportionand the'minor details of Construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention as claimed.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim is:

A gate comprising end bars, upper and lower longitudinal bars pivotally connected at-their ends to said end bars to permit the outer end of the gate to be raised and lowered on the inner end bar, centrally disposed vertical cross bars the 611th? of which are pivotally connected to tho-upper and lower longitudinal bars, a gate supporting member, means to'pivotally connect the gate thereto, a yoke shaped support embracing the opposite sides of the gate and having its lower ends hingedly secured to the lower ends of the cross bars where the same con= nect with the lower longitudinal barof the gate, a V-shaped gate supporting member movably secured to the yoke adjacent to its upper end adapted for sliding and detachable engagement with the lower side of the upper longitudinal bar of the gate, whereby In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands 111 presence of two s scrlbmg M. E. Mooiin, H. C. 'MARKS.

.the forward end of the latter may be raised I to a desired elevation. 

